Pavan Kumar Kulkarni
About Pavan Kumar Kulkarni
Pavan Kumar Kulkarni is a Lead DevOps Engineer at Rafay Systems in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, with a strong background in cloud infrastructure and automation technologies. He has extensive experience in managing CI/CD pipelines and utilizing various tools for deployment and monitoring.
Work at Rafay
Pavan Kumar Kulkarni has been serving as the Lead DevOps Engineer at Rafay Systems since 2020. His role focuses on enhancing automation and efficiency within cloud environments. Located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, he has contributed to the company's DevOps practices for four years. His expertise includes utilizing Terraform for infrastructure as code and employing configuration management tools like Ansible to streamline deployment processes.
Previous Experience in DevOps
Before joining Rafay Systems, Pavan held positions at several notable companies. He worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Akamai Technologies for five months in 2020. Prior to that, he spent three years as a Senior Software Engineer II - DevOps at Rakuten India from 2017 to 2020. His earlier experience includes six years as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at MetricStream from 2011 to 2017, where he developed his skills in DevOps practices.
Education and Expertise
Pavan Kumar Kulkarni has a solid educational background in engineering and technology. He earned a Master's Degree in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems from UTL Technology VTU RC Bangalore from 2013 to 2016. He also holds an Engineer's Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SLNCE Raichur, completed between 2006 and 2010. Additionally, he studied ASP.net, C#.net, and DBMS at RiiiT Mysore, achieving an ADSP from 2010 to 2011.
Technical Skills and Tools
Pavan possesses a diverse skill set in cloud infrastructure management and DevOps tools. He is experienced in using Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services for cloud management. His proficiency extends to building CI/CD pipelines for applications developed in Java Spring Boot, Node.js, and Go using Jenkins. He also utilizes Helm for Kubernetes package management and has hands-on experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Newrelic, and Grafana.